Limburg while it was anchored off Yemen. Al Qaeda on the USS Cole and USS Limburg used small explosive loaded boats to attack their target. Usage of merchant vessels to facilitate terrorist attack is one of the four ways vessels can serve/ be used as weapon. The third major attack, and probably the one least familiar to Westerners, was the 2004 attack in the Philippines on Super Ferry 14. Mr. Lorenz uses these as stepping off points for his article and states that Maritime Terrorism is not well defined
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As Mahatma Gandhi put it, “[the] truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear”. The mass media is the mess of “cobwebs” that surround the truth. Therefore, we need to fully understand how to read the media in order to fully understand the truth. Initially, people do accept the reality they are presented with; however, one must always question what the media says, and become educated on the facts the media presents in order to become
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techniques and style of some person, place, or thing. A huge example within Cat's Cradle of parody in the novel is ice nine; the manmade weapon in which the combination of crystals of ethylene diamond tartrate cause the atoms it comes in contact with to stack and freeze resulting in all the water it comes across to freeze and continue to spread. The novel describes the weapons apocalyptical power by stating that “When it fell it would freeze into hard little hobnails of ice-nine—and that Levy 4 would be
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How does Ted G. Goertzel claim C.W Mills’ s The Cause of World War III C. Wright Mills, who was a famous sociologist of America, claimed that a new world war is coming up and the cause of World War III is the military industrial complex. He states his opinion about new world war detailedly in his book The cause of World War III. In addition, we can know more about Mills’ s opinion about how does he regard the military industrial complex and the power elites. The Ted G. Goertzel clamed
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threat to America and her interests. Due to this perceived threat, he pre-emptively invaded Iraq based on what "Saddam could have done, not what he didn't do’’ (54). It was to be later proven that Saddam's regime did not actually possess weapons of mass destruction as previously claimed by the US government, but was the U.S. response still justified in view of the perceived threat? In this context, is unilateral preemptive action by a person or state rightfully warranted? Although a nation’s prime
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southern border of the United States. Mexico has been a producer and distributer of illegal drugs for generations; the country now finds itself in a battle with powerful and well-financed drug cartels. The corruption in the Mexico, the trafficking of weapons and the violence has made it possible for cartels to keep operating. Since 2006, when president Calderon declared the war on drug cartels, violence in Mexico has increased dramatically. The country has certainly seen a big rise in drug violence
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the means by the end 1) No matter how horrific the act it is justifiable to the terrorists as a means to achieve their goals. 2) Common concepts of law, ethics, morality, logic or religion do not apply to terrorists. 3) The creation of terror, mass hysteria and to demonstrate the powerlessness of government are all designed to force submission to the terrorist goals. 4) Terrorists do not view themselves as terrorists. 21 July 1972 - "Bloody Friday" An IRA bomb killed 11 and
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An atomic bomb is a weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of such heavy elements as plutonium or uranium. (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2016) This catastrophic bomb was used twice during World War II. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped its first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb was known as "Little Boy", a uranium gun-type bomb that exploded with about thirteen kilotons of force. Three
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preserved, but it can't be restored." * "The whole idea of a debt limit is a terrible, terrible mistake. If you're going to spend more than you take in, what are you going to do except raise the debt limit? So it becomes this political weapon of mass destruction. It really is like a nuclear bomb. It's something that maybe you talk about but never dream of using." On the economy: * "The country’s coming back. You can’t stop the United States. We get through everything." * "I’ve filed a
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prevailing ailment is being discovered or an alternative therapy for a disease. Some of these discoveries can also be a threat to the continuous existence of Mankind, for instance; the development of nuclear heads, Atomic missiles and other weapons of mass destruction. It is fabled though, that soon Robots will be used in Warfare to minimize human casualties, but I wonder how the winner and the vanquished will be determined if this actually comes to reality. In warfare, what compels a troop’s surrender
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